Human Centered Organizational Culture

11 Knowledge Translation during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Francesca Dal Mas, Lorenzo Cobianchi, Daniele Piccolo, Paul Barach

Introduction and Premise

Increasing numbers of organizations in all industries and in countries around the world are advancing the paradigm transformation from the traditional hierarchical, bureaucratic and rigid human-as-resources organizational cultures of the industrial past to the new Human Centered paradigm applied to the Organizational Culture (HCOC) aligned with the demands of the Information Age and the Knowledge Economy. In the 21st century, HCOCs need to be resilient and agile to be able to cope effectively with unavoidable disruptions of the global volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous environment (Lepeley, ...